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Integrated Disinfection By-Products Mixtures Research: Results from the Four Lab Study
Citation:
RICHARDSON, S. D., J. E. SIMMONS, M. G. NAROTSKY, L. D. CLAXTON, E. S. HUNTER, R. J. MILTNER, J. G. PRESSMAN, T. F. SPETH, G. E. RICE, L. K. TEUSCHLER, S. W. Krasner, AND H. S. Weinberg. Integrated Disinfection By-Products Mixtures Research: Results from the Four Lab Study. Presented at 56th ASMS Conference on Mass Spectrometry, Denver, CO, June 01 - 05, 2008.
Impact/Purpose:
This research is important to determine what chemical DBPs people are actually exposed to through their drinking water, and to understand their potential health risks so that they can potentially be minimized.
Description:
This study involves collaboration of four national laboratories/centers of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as scientists from universities and water utilities, and is termed the ‘Four Lab Study’. The purpose of this study is to address concerns related to potential health effects from exposure to complex mixtures of drinking water disinfection by-products (DBPs) that cannot be addressed directly from toxicological studies of individual DBPs or simple DBP mixtures. Adverse health effects evaluated in this study include the reproductive and developmental effects observed in some recent human epidemiologic studies of drinking water, as well as several other effects.